Hear Kitty

Hear Kitty plays soothing and distinct orchestral sounds as you gain and spend your combat resources. It's like having your own theme music! You'll hear tones as you gain combo points or stacks of your buffs, and when you hear the final note played, you'll know it's time for a finishing move. Never watch for little red dots or buff stacks again!

These classes and specs work with Hear Kitty:

Druids (in cat form): combo points

Rogues: combo points

Elemental and Enhancement shamans: maelstrom

Paladins: holy power

Shadow priests: insanity

Warlocks: soul shards

Monks: chi

Arcane mages: arcane charges

Frost mages with Glacial Spike: icicles

Vehicles with combo points (such as the drakes in Eye of Eternity)

Version 1.7.6

When using the rogue talent Anticipation, and spending combo points when you have excess combo points in reserve (the smaller dots), Hear Kitty will now play tones as if you spent your 5 points and then immediately got new ones from your reserves. For example, if you had 8 combo points and then spent 5 of those, you'd hear the "finisher" (zero) tone, and then one, then two, then three.

Version 1.7.5

Fix for an error that would occur with the rogue talent Anticipation as of patch 7.1.5.

Version 1.7.4

Frost mages: Added support for Icicles when the Glacial Spike talent is chosen.

Version 1.7.3

Shadow priests: Tones will no longer play during Voidform, since your Insanity increases and decreases so frequently in that state.
Shadow priests: I changed the Insanity thresholds at which tones will play to better work with the Legacy of the Void talent. The fourth tone will now play at 70 Insanity when Voidform activates with the talent, and the fifth plays at 100 when Insanity is capped.
Elemental shamans: I changed the Maelstrom thresholds at which tones will play to convey more useful information. The first tone will now play at 20 Maelstrom when Flame Shock and Frost Shock are at their maximum power, and the second tone will now play at 50 Maelstrom when Earthquake activates.

Version 1.7.2

Removed support for WoW 6.2.x. This version should be slightly faster than the previous version.

Version 1.7.1

Fixed a problem where Hear Kitty was playing unnecessary sounds for rogues and feral druids on live realms.

Version 1.7

This version is compatible with both the live 6.2.x realms and the Legion beta. (It will show up as "out of date" on the beta but it should work properly after you click the option to load out-of-date addons.)

Adjusted the way that Hear Kitty tracks combo points on the Legion beta so that it will work again for feral druids and rogues.
Added support for the new Maelstrom resource for elemental and enhancement shamans on the Legion beta. Support for lightning shield charges and Maelstrom Weapon charges is still in place for when using Hear Kitty on the live realms.
Added support for the new Insanity resource for shadow priests on the Legion beta. Support for shadow orbs is still in place for when using Hear Kitty on the live realms.
Added support for the sorta-new Soul Shards resource for all warlock specs on the Legion beta. Support for burning embers is still in place for when using Hear Kitty on the live realms.
Adjusted the way that Hear Kitty tracks Arcane Charges on the Legion beta so that it will work again for arcane mages.
Adjusted the way that Hear Kitty tracks combo points on the Wyrmrest Skytalon drakes in the Aces High! quest in Borean Tundra (and presumably also in Eye of Eternity) on the beta so that it will work again.
The Hear Kitty features for Evangelism for discipline priests, Unholy Transformation for unholy death knights, and Frenzy for beast mastery hunters are no longer relevant on the Legion beta, so those specs will no longer play any tones on the beta.
The Hear Kitty features for Holy Power for paladins and Chi for monks appear to be working with no necessary changes on the Legion beta.

Hi! Thanks for the report. I've heard of this happening once or twice before, right after a patch, when there's a lot of new stuff to load. If it doesn't happen every time, I wouldn't worry about it. I think you're right that it's almost certainly just a random failure from loading a bunch of stuff.

I got this error. I expect it's just random from loading all my myriad addons, but I wanted to let you know. It was the first in the list of 9 errors from logging in. Leaving my list of addons for your information.

Thanks for the report! The line of code that took too lone is the line that actually plays the sound. My best wild guess is that it might have happened while your computer was busy loading a bunch of stuff from disk, or something like that, preventing it from loading the sound to play in a timely manner.

Right now I would guess that it's probably an isolated problem and you won't see it again, but do let me know if you run into this error a second time!

Thanks. Hear Kitty doesn't actually use MAX_BATTLEFIELD_QUEUES so it should be okay. Out of my addons only Gyro does, and it has an updated version of VgerCore.lua that uses GetMaxBattlefieldID. (The next released version of Hear Kitty will have that updated version of VgerCore.lua though.)

(What made you notice this? Just scanned through a bunch of addons?)

Yup, went through my addon folder when I read that US UI forum post, checking for affected addons, because I have some ancient ones that are not being updated anymore. =)

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Thanks. Hear Kitty doesn't actually use MAX_BATTLEFIELD_QUEUES so it should be okay. Out of my addons only Gyro does, and it has an updated version of VgerCore.lua that uses GetMaxBattlefieldID. (The next released version of Hear Kitty will have that updated version of VgerCore.lua though.)

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